How to set up Quality of Service (QoS)

Quality of Service (QoS) in Bandwidth Management is used to classify data traffic into different groups assigned with different priority levels. Thus, when the network bandwidth is limited, we can reserve bandwidth for critical applications to ensure unimportant activities will not use all the available bandwidth.

 

 

DrayTek Vigor Routers support three classes in QoS settings. Traffic not belonging to any of these classes will be categorized as "Other." To configure QoS on Vigor routers, please use the following steps.

 

 

For Ethernet WAN connections the router cannot determine the actual line speed of the Internet connection if it is lower than the link speed of the connection. Since the QoS algorithm is based on the actual line speed to successfully allocate the appropriate bandwidth and priority for each class, we need to enter the actual line speed in the QoS settings.

 

1. Go to speedtest.net website on the browser. Click GO to run the speed test.

 

 

2. Go to Bandwidth Management >> Quality of Service.

 

Select the WAN interface we want to set the bandwidth.

Set Inbound and Outbound speed we tested on speedtest.net.

Click OK to save.

 

 

 

 

Network Administrator can use the classification below to set a class rule :

 

 

1. Go to Bandwidth Management >> Quality of Service, click Add to create a class rule we would like to configure.

 

 

2. Check Enable and set the rule.

 

 

Now the rule we set will be shown on Class Rule. 

 

 

 

 

After setting the QoS rule, we have to decide which class will get higher priority by setting the percentage of each class.

 

1. Enter the percentage of each class.

 

 

Now the QoS settings are complete. Network Administrator may click Status to check the bandwidth usage of each Class.